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> they truly, sincerely, earnestly believe there is no evil to be seen, or if there is any evil, they truly, sincerely, earnestly believe they can subdue it with great engineering and great management.

That's hard to believe when they've responded to international catastrophes that they had a role in like this[1], and admitted this themselves[2]:

> Facebook admits it was used to 'incite offline violence' in Myanmar

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46105934



My perception is that they think they can "fix" these horrifying problems with cleverer software, better policies, and new procedures without negatively altering or impacting the giant gush of money that flows into the company every day.




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